Report: Jersey City Medical Center set to partner with Barnabas system

Jersey Journal file photoNJBiz.com reports that the Jersey City Medical Center is close to a deal with the Barnabas system, which runs 10 hospitals.

The Jersey City Medical Center is close to announcing a partnership with the Barnabas system, according to a report on NJBiz.com

JCMC spokesman Mark Rabson declined to comment, but NJBiz reports that talks between the Jersey City hospital and Barnabas officials are “going well.”

If true, the deal would give the Barnabas system, which runs 10 hospitals including Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, its only Hudson County facility.

JCMC attempted earlier this year to acquire the bankrupt Christ Hospital on Palisade Avenue with a Bloomfield-based healthcare company. The company, which lost its bid to the owners of Bayonne Medical Center and Hoboken University Medical Center, would have owned the facility, and JCMC would have run a portion of it as a nonprofit hospital.

A Barnabas official declined to comment to NJBiz.com on today’s report.